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...summer tables. But that luscious crop mostly emerges thanks to farm workers who labor in flat fields under a scorching sun - and has a price higher than the grocery-store bill. Every year many farm workers become sick, and some die. Typical of the fatalities was Maria Isabel Vasquez Jimenez, who was just 17. In May 2008, she died after picking grapes in Merced County for nine hours in 95-degree heat. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger attended her funeral and promised to do more to protect workers...
...Oaxaca state health minister Martin Vasquez tells TIME he pressed for further analysis and sent more samples - which then tested positive for flu. A week later, Lezana received word in a teleconference with Canadian officials that Gutierrez's cause of death, and the strange cause of illness for hundreds of other patients showing up in Mexican clinics and hospitals, was A/H1N1. Lezana concedes that Mexican labs did not then have the rare and expensive form of PCR and RT-PCR analysis - a means of identifying a virus' genetic makeup - to pinpoint such an unusual strain. (They have such analysis...
Perez's baby will be luckier, however, than another Mexico City-born infant, 21-month-old Miguel Tejada Vasquez. The boy died this week of swine flu, most likely contracted in Mexico, while on a visit to Texas with his family. Miguel was the grandson of one of Mexico's most prominent citizens, publishing baron Mario Vasquez Rana - proof, anyway, that in a country with one of the world's widest gaps between rich and poor, this plague made no class distinctions. With reporting by Ioan Grillo and Dolly Mascarenas/Mexico City
Kelly went 2-2 at 55 kg in the junior division and did not qualify for the World Team Trials, while Harvard assistant coach Darrell Vasquez, who has already qualified for the US Olympic trials in June, went 1-2 in the senior bracket...
...Solids At Providence in L.A., Adrian Vasquez make mojito spheres with sodium hexametaphosphate...